AMUSEMENTS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 280, 24 November 1914, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS.

HIS MAJESTY’S THEATRE. A programme of splendid quality was screened at His Majesty’s last night. The star play, “Pepper Box Inn Tragedy,” was a gripping play. The story is interesting from start to finish, some very fine scenes of Paris being shown, as well as pretty country scenes. “Pepper Box Inn Tragedy” will he shown for the last time tonight. Other fine pictures are “Blue or the Grey,” an A.B. war picture, showing the strategy of a girl-woman in saving her soldier and her sweetheart from the enemy. “The Queen’s Mercy” is a stirring story of secret’ service gangs and revolutionists. The |f “Australian Gazette’' interests the spectator all through. “Agra” is a splendid Pathe-colour scenic, showing temples of art in India, built in ages past. The comedies, “Getting Solid with Pa” and “Max’s melodrama” are great laughs. Mr Will Diamond’s ren. dering of “How Britishers’ Die,” a descriptive song, was a huge success, and the song will be repeated to-night.

“SAN TOY."

It is just two years ago since that brilliant organisation, the New Plymouth Operatic Society delighted the patrons of the Town Hall with Sydney Jones’ Japanese play “The Geisha.” Last year they went one better with “The Country Girl,” which created more than a favourable impression, and again this year they are producing another of Sydney Jones’ clever writings, “San Toy.” This time the plot is laid in China, and is beset with many amusing incidents during the course of the unravelling. When produced in 1900 at Daly’s,Theatre, London, it secured an instantaneous success, running for two years without a break, with such capable artists as Marie Tempest, Hilda Moody, Haydn and Huntly Wright playing the leading roles. “San Tby” simply bristles with delightful numbers, and after the performance on Thursday night next, Stratford is likely to have the whistling fever badly.